Antonín Janoušek
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Antonín Janoušek (22 August 1877 – 30 March 1941) was a Czech journalist and communist.
Originally an engine fitter, in 1895 Janoušek became a member of the social democratic party. In 1906 he became a workers journalists and a functionary of workers associations in Austria-Hungary.
In 1919 he led the Czech and Slovak section at the central committee of the Hungarian Communist Party. During the period June 20 - July 7, 1919 he was a leader (predseda revolučného výboru) of the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic. In 1920 he was sentenced by the Horthy regime in Hungary, then delivered to Czechoslovak authorities. In 1922 he moved to the (communist) Soviet Union, where he became a functionary of the International Workers Aid Council. He died because of political persecutions.
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- Příruční slovník naučný 1962 (encyclopedia by Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences): volume II, page 338.
Provisional Government for Slovakia (as part of Czechoslovakia):
Vavro Šrobár (1918)
Slovak Soviet Republic:
Antonín Janoušek (1919)
Autonomous Slovakia (as part of Czechoslovakia):
Jozef Tiso (1938 – 1939) | Jozef Sivák (1939) | Karol Sidor (1939)
First Slovak Republic:
Jozef Tiso (1939) | Vojtech Tuka (1939 – 1944) | Štefan Tiso (1944 – 1945)
Presidents of the Board of Commissioners (as part of Czechoslovakia):
Karol Šmidke (1945 – 1946) | Gustáv Husák (1946 – 1950) | Karol Bacílek (1950 – 1951) | Július Ďuriš (1951 – 1953) | Rudolf Strechaj (1953 – 1960)
Slovak Socialist Republic / Slovak Republic (as part of Czechoslovakia):
Štefan Sádovský (1969) | Peter Colotka (1969-1988) | Ivan Knotek (1988-1989) | Pavel Hrivnák (1989) | Milan Čič (1989-1990) | Vladimír Mečiar (1990-1991) | Ján Čarnogurský (1991-1992) | Vladimír Mečiar (1992)
Slovak Republic:
Vladimír Mečiar (1993-1994) | Jozef Moravčík (1994) | Vladimír Mečiar (1994-1998) | Mikuláš Dzurinda (1998-2006) | Robert Fico (2006-)
